English Explanatory Dictionary

condition

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A state or quality.
  2. A particular state of being.
  3. The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
  4. The health status of a medical patient.
  5. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
  6. A requirement.
  7. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
  8. A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
verb
  1. To subject to the process of acclimation.
  2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
  3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
  4. To place conditions or limitations upon.
  5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
  6. To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
  7. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
  8. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  9. To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
  10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Pronunciation

/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-condition.wav En-us-condition.ogg /kənˈɖi.ʃən/ /ˈkən.ɖɪ.ʃən/

Word forms

condition conditions conditioning conditioned

Etymology

From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio.

Synonyms

fettle requisite necessity

Derived words

bollard condition boundary condition chronic condition conditionability conditionable conditional conditionly condition number condition of carriage condition precedent condition subsequent countercondition critical condition cryocondition decondition DEFCON fee simple subject to condition subsequent in ballast condition in condition initial condition Lipschitz condition loss condition macrocondition malcondition medical condition metacondition miscondition multicondition on condition on condition that out of condition overcondition postcondition post-COVID-19 condition precondition pre-existing condition preexisting condition race condition Robin boundary condition Sakharov condition statement of condition subcondition suspensive condition transversality condition uncondition victory condition win condition Yoda condition air-condition conditioner recondition

Translations

Arabic: حَال Arabic: حَالَة Arabic: وَضْع Armenian: վիճակ Azerbaijani: hal Azerbaijani: vəziyyət Azerbaijani: halət Bashkir: хәл Bashkir: торош Belarusian: стан Belarusian: стано́вішча Central Bikol: kamugtakan Bulgarian: състоя́ние Burmese: အခြေအနေ Catalan: condició Chinese Cantonese: 狀態 /状态 Chinese Mandarin: 狀態 /状态 Chinese Mandarin: 病情 Czech: stav Czech: kondice Dutch: conditie Dutch: toestand Esperanto: stato Finnish: vointi Finnish: tila Finnish: olo Finnish: kondis Finnish: kunto (e.g. jalka on huonossa kunnossa) Finnish: happi (humoristic) French: condition Galician: condición German: Verfassung German: Kondition German: Befinden German: Zustand German: Beschaffenheit Greek: κατάσταση Ancient Greek: ἕξις Hindi: हालत Hungarian: állapot Hungarian: kondíció Hungarian: viszony Hungarian: körülmény Indonesian: kondisi Indonesian: keadaan Irish: bail Irish: caoi Irish: dóigh Italian: condizione Japanese: 状態 Japanese: コンディション Korean: 상태 Korean: 컨디션 Central Kurdish: حاڵ Latin: status Latin: habitus Latvian: apstāklis Lithuanian: būklė Macedonian: со́стојба Maltese: kundizzjoni Marathi: स्थिती Norwegian Bokmål: tilstand Norwegian Bokmål: kondisjon Norwegian Nynorsk: tilstand Norwegian Nynorsk: kondisjon Pashto: حالت Iranian Persian: حال Iranian Persian: حالَت Iranian Persian: وَضْعِیَت Plautdietsch: Schekjsol Polish: stan Polish: kondycja Polish: warunek
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